Notes: The station opened as Preston Junction and it was situated on the Wigan Branch Railway which opened in 1832 and connected the Liverpool and Manchester Railway at Parkside to Wigan. The junction at Parkside faced east so trains coming from the west had to reverse. In 1838 the Wigan Branch was doubled and extended to Preston and eventually became the West Coast Main Line.

In 1847 a new west to north connection was put in and it met the original Wigan Branch just at the end of Preston Junctions platforms.

On 1.2.1877 the station, by now part of the LNWR was re-named as Lowton and Preston Junction. It closed on 1.2.1917 as a wartime economy measure re-opening 25 months later as simply Lowton.

The station was situated on a curve and extended underneath the A572 road bridge. It had two platforms and its booking facilities where located on the platform that catered for east and westbound trains. It was just south of the road bridge.

The station was an early closure closing to passengers on 26.9.1949. In the early 1970s the west to north curve and the line through Lowton was electrified as part of the West Coast Main Line electrification from Winwick Junction to Glasgow. This was to allow some trains to take this route rather than the direct line that ran from a point just to the north of Lowton to Winwick Junction. This would allow freight trains to get out of the way of fast passenger services. It also allowed some passenger services to stop at Newton Le Willows or Earlstown.

Today Lowton station is remarkably intact and can be seen clearly from the road bridge.

See also Golborne South